A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

2. All representing of the Persons as distinct, as to set out the Father (personally considered) by the Image of an old man, as if he were a creature, the Son under the Image of a Lamb or young man, the Holy Ghost under the Image of a Dove, all which wrongeth the Godhead exceedingly; and although the Son was and is Man having taken on him that nature and united it to his Godhead, yet he is not a mere man, therefore that image, which only holdeth forth one nature, and looketh like any man in the World, cannot be the representation of that Person, which is God and man.

2. All representing of the Persons as distinct, as to set out the Father (personally considered) by the Image of an old man, as if he were a creature, the Son under the Image of a Lamb or young man, the Holy Ghost under the Image of a Dove, all which wrongeth the Godhead exceedingly; and although the Son was and is Man having taken on him that nature and united it to his Godhead, yet he is not a meer man, therefore that image, which only holdeth forth one nature, and looketh like any man in the World, cannot be the representation of that Person, which is God and man.

And if it be s •id, mans soul cannot be painted, but his body may, and yet that picture representeth a man: I answer, it doth so, because he has but one Nature, and what representeth that, repr assenteth the person; but it is not so with Christ, his Godhead is not a distinct part of the humane Nature, as the soul of man is (which is necessarily supposed in every living man) but a distinct nature, only united with the manhood in that one person Christ, who has no fellow; therefore what representeth him, must not represent a man only, but must represent Christ, Immanuel, God man, otherwise it is not his Image; beside, there is no warrant for representing him in his Manhood, nor any colourable possib •lity of it, but as men fancy; and shall that be called Christs portraiture? would that be called any other mans portraiture? which were drawn at mens pleasure, without regard to the pattern; again there is no use of it, for either that Image behoved to have but common estimation with other Images, and that would wrong Christ, or a peculiar respect and reverence, and so it sinneth against this Commandment that forbiddeth all religious reverence to Images; but he being God, and so the object of Worship, we must either divide his Natures, or say, that Image or picture representeth not Christ.